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Confiteor

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Con·fi·te·or  (kn-ft-r, -ôr)
n.
A prayer in which confession of sins is made.

[Latin Cnfiteor, I confess, the first word of the prayer, first person sing. present tense of confitr, to acknowledge; see confess.]

Confiteor [kənˈfɪtɪˌɔː]
n
(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a prayer consisting of a general confession of sinfulness and an entreaty for forgiveness
[from Latin: I confess; from the beginning of the Latin prayer of confession]


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Being in the navy and hence moving around a good deal even to other countries, I found that everywhere I went and attended Mass, we all stood and knelt at the same time, we all said the prayers together in the same language: Confiteor Deo, Credo in Unum Deum, Pater Noster, and so on, behind the priest who was facing the altar.
The 173-to-29 vote approved alterations to well-known texts such as the Gloria, the Confiteor, and the Sanctus ("Holy, holy") that bring them closer to word-for-word conformity with the original Latin texts.
The ICEL proposal would return the "mea culpa" ("through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault") to the Confiteor.
 
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